Im looking for a free 3rd party pop3 connector for exchange 2003?

Question

I am sitting with a windows 2003 server where i recently installed microsoft exchange 2003. My internal e-mail works but i cant get external emails. I need a 3rd party pop 3 connector. Does anybody know where i can download one?

I am using exchange server 2003 not sbs.
"It is widely known that Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 doesn't support receiving mail through the POP3 protocol. However, in practice, it has been shown that many users find the absence of this feature inconvenient." This is a quote from a website. I am looking for a FREEWARE version pop3 connector.

Website: http://www.softpicks.net/software/Native-POP3-Connector-18725.htm

Answer 1

do you have a business internet account? do you have a static IP address from your ISP? if not, and you have a "home user" Internet connection, then you most likely will not be able to receive emails coming into your server from the outside (Internet). it is a standard that email servers use SMTP (not POP3) to send/receive emails between each other and most ISPs block this protocol (port 25) from the Internet to their customers. you will have to get a business account to get this to work.

why does your outgoing mail work, then? yes, it worked when i did it, too. my ISP relayed my outgoing mail for me, but incoming didn't work. i do not know of any free 3rd party email relays, which will accept your email over SMTP and forward it back to you over POP3. and i work with a lot of dorks who would know information like this if it was free and existed out there somewhere (i tried to do something similar to what you are trying).

Answer 2

No, you don't need a third party POP3 connector. In the first place, Exchange has one included.

In the second, to get external e mail, you need an SMTP connector. You also need to have your server configured to serve mail for a valid DNS name, and an MX record must be present in the DNS Zone file for your domain that points to your mail server.

You can configure SMTP and POP3 services in exchange through the server administrator snap in.

If you want to see if they are running, you can open a command prompt on the server and type the following:

telnet localhost 25

On exchange, you will get a screen that looks something like this if SMTP is running:

220 RocketMail.myDomain.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.6713 ready at Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:26:47 -0400

Answer 3

I just posted a long response to your other question on this topic, check it out as I believe it has what you are looking for. Good luck!